# Farts on Film **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 8, 2003, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farts-on-film/206321 "2003-10-08T16:56:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farts-on-film/206321/61 "2013-01-15T17:50:42Z")
> [@Cholo](#): > > Oh man, how about Rodney Dangerfield’s famous fart in **Caddyshack**? > > You know…_“Did someone step on a duck?”_ > > Too funny! I can’t believe it took this long to mention this one. This is the line that we all used in college when we farted. Sure, it’s immature, but farts are one of the first things fathers and sons bond over. Or a Grandfather. Farts are hilarity at the most basic biological level. Everyone laughs at a good fart! And the younger you are or the older you are, farting out loud without apology is socially tolerated, if not outright permitted. Has anyone ever done a sociological study of the fart and its importance in culture? I think they should. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farts-on-film/206321/62 "2013-01-15T17:54:31Z")
> [@NutWrench](#): > > I am very happy that I’ve never seen _Pink Flamingos,_ especially for the dog poop scene. And that’s not even the most disturbing thing in that movie. ---
**Author:** ![LionelHutz405](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lionelhutz405/32/536_2.png) [@LionelHutz405](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LionelHutz405)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farts-on-film/206321/63 "2013-01-15T18:38:27Z")
> [@syncrolecyne](#): > > Speaking of Leslie Nielsen, he farted on the Arsenio Hall show. In the middle of the interview segment he scooted over and let one rip. To my knowledge, no one else has ever audibly farted like that on TV. Leslie was a big fan of the fart machine and would often pretend to rip one during interviews. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farts-on-film/206321/64 "2013-01-15T19:46:10Z")
Whoopie Goldberg supposedly tooted on “The View” and then made a remark about barking spiders. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farts-on-film/206321/65 "2013-01-15T20:15:55Z")
I just watched the Adam Sandler opus, “Click” and there is a scene in there where his boss doesn’t give him a promotion. Sandler using, his magic remote, pauses everything and proceeds to fart right in his bosses face several times. It’s,ummmm, very Sandler-esque. ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farts-on-film/206321/66 "2013-01-16T15:42:30Z")
Forgot about Bio-Dome where Stephen Baldwin and Pauly Shore try to identify the compounds that caused the odor of a particular fart. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farts-on-film/206321/67 "2013-01-16T18:13:41Z")
“Beavis and Butthead Do America”, this still makes me laugh: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/yKBpxH1lbEY/hqdefault.jpg "Beavis And Butthead - Campfire") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKBpxH1lbEY) ---
**Author:** ![Phnord\_Prephect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/df705f/32.png) [@Phnord\_Prephect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phnord_Prephect)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farts-on-film/206321/68 "2013-01-17T02:04:33Z")
There’s so much to enjoy in [THIS SCENE](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnohZhrp9s8) from the movie _Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back_ that the actual fart joke is mere icing on the cake. So to speak. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farts-on-film/206321/69 "2013-01-17T16:12:53Z")
In Bruce Almighty, Jim Carrey makes his rival newscaster (Steve Carrell) fart on camera. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farts-on-film/206321/70 "2013-01-17T20:14:50Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > Whoopie Goldberg supposedly tooted on “The View” and then made a remark about barking spiders. > ~VOW Whoopi’s very name is derived from “Whoopie Cushions”. She reportedly had a Leslie Nielsen-esque fondness for fart jokes. > [@](#): > > Her stage name, Whoopi, was taken from a whoopee cushion; she has stated that “If you get a little gassy, you’ve got to let it go. So people used to say to me, ‘You’re like a whoopee cushion.’ And that’s where the name came from.”[ > **[Whoopi Goldberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoopi_Goldberg)** > > Caryn Elaine Johnson (born November 13, 1955), known professionally as Whoopi Goldberg (/ˈwʊpi/), is an American actor, comedian, author, and television personality. The recipient of numerous accolades, she is one of few people to receive an Emmy Award, Grammy Award, Academy Award, and Tony Award, collectively known as the EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony). In 2001, she received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. > Goldberg began her career on stage in 1983 with her one-woman show, Spook ... ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farts-on-film/206321/71 "2013-01-17T21:32:40Z")
[This “trailer”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h88lEYCVDBY) from the beginning of _Tropic Thunder_ (“The Fatties: Fart 2”). ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farts-on-film/206321/72 "2013-01-17T23:08:11Z")
> [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > I can’t believe it took this long to mention this one. This is the line that we all used in college when we farted. Sure, it’s immature, but farts are one of the first things fathers and sons bond over. Or a Grandfather. Farts are hilarity at the most basic biological level. > > Everyone laughs at a good fart! > > And the younger you are or the older you are, farting out loud without apology is socially tolerated, if not outright permitted. > > Has anyone ever done a sociological study of the fart and its importance in culture? I think they should. Username/post combo is rather appropriate here. First word of username, anyway. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farts-on-film/206321.md?page=3)